2010: Films of the year

[Sean of the Shed]

I've not seen as many films as I'd like this year, but in some sort of order that can change from day to day, here's my favourite five of the year:
1. Kick-Ass
2. Four Lions
3. The Other Guys
4. Sherlock Holmes
5. Shutter Island

After the first viewing in the cinema, Inception was up there, but having seen it a second time on DVD, I just found it annoying.

[Ek weet nie]

2010: Films of the year

I've reservations about the way the film-going year gets reduced to end of year lists but list-making lights up the part of my brain that sorts my album collection into alphabetical order. Nerdorgasm.

I've had a brilliant film watching year, attending both the Dublin and London Film Festivals. I've also had the chance to see top quality re-issues like Metropolis and an Ozu season in the cinema. As well as that, I bought a home projector for my apartment and get to watch things on a 10ft screen on the comfort of my sofa with no popcorn eating, talking or mobile phone distractions.

Exceptional
La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (Frederick Wiseman)
Another Year (Mike Leigh)

Excellent
A Prophet (Un prophète) (Jacques Audiard)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
I am Love (Io sono l'amore) (Luca Guadagnino)
Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) (Xavier Beauvois)
Police, Adjective (Politist, adjectiv) (Corneliu Porumboiu)
A Single Man (Tom Ford)
Plastic Bag (Ramin Bahrani)
Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky)
Ponyo on the Cliffs by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo) (Hayao Miyazaki)
Rapt (Lucas Belvaux)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) (Hirokazu Koreeda)

Very Good
Poetry (Shi) (Chang-dong Lee)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Loong Boonmee raleuk chat) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
Lion’s Den (Leonera) (Pablo Trapero)
The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner)
Meek's Cut-Off (Kelly Reichardt)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
His & Hers (Ken Wardrop)
I Wish I Knew (Hai shang chuan qi) (Zhang Ke Jia)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
The Tillman Story (Amir Bar-Lev)
Chanel Coco & Igor Stravinsky (Jan Kounen)
Honey (Bal) (Semih Kaplanoglu)
Air Doll (Kûki ningyô) (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway)
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Road (John Hillcoat)
The Robber (Der Räuber) (Benjamin Heisenberg)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski)
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (Abbas Kiarostami)
De Mouvement (Richard Kerr)
Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy)
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) (Zhang Ke Jia)
Oki's Movie (Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa) (Sang-soo Hong)
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
Youth in Revolt (Miguel Arteta)
Invictus (Clint Eastwood)
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller)
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)

If you want a full nerd like list of the 200+ films I saw go here.

[Max Payne]

2010: Films of the year

I rather enjoyed The Town. It's generally been a poor year though. Animal Kingdom, though much hyped was a let down.

Other films I enjoyed
Cop Out
Piranha
Get Him to the Greek
How to Train Your Dragon

Films that were nowhere near as good as hoped
Repo Men
Animal Kingdom
Kick Ass
Wall Street 2
The Social Network
Daybreakers

Films that I just hated

Greenberg
Scott Pilgrim
Nightmare on Elm St just sucked
Paranormal Activity 2 was dross
Skyline

[Lucia Lanigan]

2010: Films of the year

Enter the Void
A Single Man
Shutter Island
Whatever Works (bite me)
Robinson in Ruins

[Stumpy Pepys]

2010: Films of the year

Toy Story 3
Inception
A Single Man
Kick Ass
The Social Network

[Crusoe]

2010: Films of the year

Scott Pilgrim
Inception

It's been a slow year for my cinema viewing. And don't get me started on that bloody Harry Potter film I was dragged to see last week. Two and a half hours leading up to a dead special effect and a noseless man finding a stick.

[Tony C]

2010: Films of the year

A Prophet
Exit Through The Gift Shop
A Single Man
Winter's Bone
The Kids Are All Right

Of the other films I've seen this year 'Sherlock Holmes' was a very entertaining yarn, 'The Social Network' and 'Shutter Island' were disappointing whilst both 'Invictus' and 'Wall Street 2' were utter tosh.

[Sean of the Shed]

2010: Films of the year

Crusoe wrote:

Scott Pilgrim
Inception

It's been a slow year for my cinema viewing. And don't get me started on that bloody Harry Potter film I was dragged to see last week. Two and a half hours leading up to a dead special effect and a noseless man finding a stick.

That's right, spoil it for everyone.

[De Geas Clean Linen]

2010: Films of the year

Inception
Shutter Island
The American
Kick Ass
The Social Network

[Reed John]

2010: Films of the year

The best I've seen:

Toy Story 3
The Fighter
The Social Network
The Kids are Alright
Winter's Bone

Honorable mention:
How to Train Your Dragon
Kick-Ass
Inception
The American
Scott Pilgrim vs The World

I can't think of anything that I saw and really hated. I'm pretty good at avoiding crap films.

The new Harry Potter is ok as a connection between the last film and the next film, but on it's own, it's not much.

[jason voorhees]

2010: Films of the year

1. Black Swan
2. Enter the Void

Only two I've seen this year, I'm afraid. Both were flawed, but pretty much worth watching.

[imp]

2010: Films of the year

Have a terrible memory for what came out in which year, and tend in any case to see everything two years later via Netflix (was just stunned by Waltz With Bashir, and thoroughly cackled through Religulous), but I think these are the films I've seen this year that I liked:
Friendship (German film about two east Germans taking a road trip across the US right after the fall of the Berlin Wall)
The Social Network(top script)
Date Night(good caper)
The Easy A (dragged to by younger daughter - quite witty and well done teen-not-the-slut-they-think-she-is film)
Due Date (another road movie, but more than entertaining enough)
Harry Potter and whatever it was this time (always think I'm going to hate them, end up finding them pretty watchable).

[MsD]

2010: Films of the year

I didn't see as many as usual but enjoyed

Oil City Confidential
Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll
A Single Man
Gainsbourg

Liked Get Him to the Greek

Loved The Ghoat, an oldfashioned Polanski ...how great is his direction.

Disappointed with the Green Zone and Inception.

Loved Revanche, too. But that came out in 2009.

Ended up having to watch Clash of the Titans in 3D because I poked fun at my gentleman's suggestion of I Am Love ("ooh, let's go see 'i am gay'"). that will teach me.

[Gerontophile]

2010: Films of the year

I suspect (for me) that 'Sexndrugsnrocknroll' is probably my favourite of the year, but I havent seen the latest Harry Potter, yet.

Too late.

Then, fucking hell, why isnt Andy Serkis, kicking the beJEEsus, out of Colin Firth in 'best actor', shit? (was sex..., technically, out last year (2009?)

Best film I have seen this year was 'Jesus Christ Superstar'.

Controversial, I know. BUT, and this is a strange 'but', it got me a lot of bonus points on the 'never seen it before, shit, this is fucking actually pretty good' scale.

Otherwise, boringly, anything with Angelina Jolie. Its nice to see a mouth go along for the ride.

[imp]

2010: Films of the year

Watched The Kids Are All Right the other night and it ticked all the right boxes - great acting all round, well-realised and credible characters, superb script, and was an accurate reflection of the swings and balancing that come with being in a long term relationship.

*****SPOILERS*****
Also contained my favourite line of the year (from a lesbian character): "I need your observations like I need a dick in my ass."

Followed by:
"Why did you donate your sperm?"
"It seemed like a lot more fun than donating blood."

[Reed John]

2010: Films of the year

I just saw the Cohen's remake of True Grit. Very good, but not mind-blowing.

[Ray de Galles]

2010: Films of the year

I went to the movies far too few times this year but just saw my film of 2010, Megamind.

I cannot understand why more of a fuss hasn't been made about it; a sharp, witty and sometimes hysterical script (one of the two writers has some Coen Brothers link), stunning visuals (by far the best use of 3D I've seen yet. Guillermo del Toro has a "Creative Consultant" credit though I don't know how influential he was. Somebody has done a great job though), great "voice acting" (Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, David Cross and Brad Pitt are all great in it) and a perfect soundtrack.

Apparently it's underperformed in the US and internationally but it's a far more entertaining movie than Toy Story 3, The Incredibles or Despicable Me (which seems to have preempted and eclipsed it) and I really liked all those three films.

The only reason I can see for it not getting more attention is that it is almost completely a film for adults that children might also like (my 9, 7, and almost 4 year old children did) as opposed to the other way around and that fact hasn't got through to people. I hope it will be a DVD/Blu-ray (especially with the visuals) hit.